Wow have we been busy! Lots of stuff going on recently!
We are still selling candles and are doing great! The candle fundraising ends Nov 25, so please get your orders in. It is a great inexpensive Holiday gift that also donates to baby Dougie at the same time! 50% of all Our Own Candle Co. profits go to Doug’s Foundation, and 40% of all Yankee candle profits do as well! Every Candle adds up and brings us a step closer to our goal!
We also started another fundraiser and are collecting any clothing you may be getting rid of. With this fundraiser we will be getting $0.15 a pound. But we’re sure it will add up super fast! We are looking for any soft house hold items, ex: clothes, pillows, stuffed animals, soft purses, blankets etc. If you would like to donate any contact us at DougsJourney2012@yahoo.com. This will be going on till around May of 2012. We want to try and collect as many as we can! Spread the word!
Doug is really getting around. He is officially crawling now. He always could crawl but would never continuously crawl to a direct spot. He now flops down on his hiney and crawls exactly where he wants to be! Today he even followed us all the way to our bed room and didn’t hit any road blocks! He has made a little ‘home’ map in his brain and fine tunes it everyday. We couldn’t believe he knew how to get to the hall way and exactly what direction to go to get to it from the highchair! From there he followed our voices and was standing himself up at the bed in less than 5 minutes! What a BIG BOY!
This weekend we got a chance to go Pumpkin Picking at Johnsons Farm. We had a blast, Doug went on his first hayride and of course threw his hat right off the side, then we helped him pick a little pumpkin just his size and took a million pictures!
He tried a cider donut and it was the first time in at least a month he didn’t spit food out immediately after put in his mouth, we’re guessing he enjoyed the sugar on it! We then had a lovely lunch and finished up our morning/afternoon day with a walk. Doug sat in his wagon of course… Sometimes I wish I had someone to pull push or hold me all day! All in all it was a perfect day. Although we went “pumpkin picking” last year with him he was only 2 months at the time so this was really his first year pumpkin picking, or participating should we say, hehe. Ohh and for those who are worried about his $20 fitted Phillies hat, we picked it up in the lost and found and it thankfully wasn’t ran over by a different tractor.
About Me
- Dougie
- Doug was born on September 1, 2010. At 2 months old he was diagnosed with Optic Nerve Hypoplasia(ONH). ONH is when you have an under developed optic nerve causing vision impairment. In Doug’s case, his optic nerves are about 75% smaller than average size. We were told there was nothing we can do to improve his vision, but we refused to believe that was it. After hearing about stem cell treatments being done in China, that include multiple injections & various therapies, we began fundraising. We were able to raise enough money and went to China end of July, 2012. Since then we have noticed multiple changes in Dougie's vision. He is responding to things double to triple the length he was prior, and also reacting to different colors that he had never responded to prior to going. We are ready to go back and have began fundraising for more treatments because we feel they will only improve his vision more. These treatments are not cheap and insurance does not cover any of it. Starting at $24,000 plus travel and expenses, we need around $40,000 total. We did it once; we know we can do it again! Please help us create this MIRACLE and help give our son the gift of sight.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
In the words of Dory, "Just keep swimming!"
We’re so thankful for all the support and help we have been receiving! The link is everywhere and more and more people share it! We have only been fundraising going on 3 weeks now and we broke our first thousand! YAY!!! You can also find our cause page on facebook: Dougs Journey to Sight
We are starting our first official fundraiser... We will be selling Yankee candles, and 40% of the profit goes to Doug’s Journey to Sight. Unfortunately as of now, there is no way to make sales over the internet, so please contact us if you would like to purchase some: Coleyni85@comcast.net. Don’t forget Christmas is coming up. This can be a great way to knock some people off that list and also help Doug at the same time!
We are welcome to any new ideas anyone has come up with. A few friends have started their own little ways to help us earn donations which we LOVE! If you know of or are thinking of anything to help us out, just let us know and we will look into it.
We are still looking for prize donations to go toward an auction we plan on having at a beef and beer. No dates are set as we want to get everything thing in place before we start selling tickets! Keep us in mind if you’re thinking about going!
We are also trying to find a calendar gadget that will allow us to add events, but are having trouble finding one. Until then you will just have to wait. As of right now we don’t have any fundraiser events coming up besides the Yankee candle sales.
This last week has gone by super fast. With the weather going back and forth Dougie hasn’t been feeling the best, but we do try and take advantage of the nicer weather and get out. We like long walk (well mom does) and LOVE the swings. We always stop at the park after a walk if there is enough time. Those of you who don’t know, Doug has an Occupational Therapist (an amazing occupational therapist might I add) that comes every other week through Early intervention. She came this week along with a lovely lady from Commission of the blind. These 2 work with both Doug and mom to make sure Doug keeps up with all his milestones. We’ve said it tons of times, but Doug is truly amazing and is currently right where he should be with his milestones.
This time we worked on putting things in a container and hearing the sound it makes… When we’re showed little things like this it really puts things into prospective. I (mom) personally am a very visual learner and to think of trying to learn everything without sight almost seems impossible, but Doug proves me wrong every day. He knows right where he shouldn’t be playing and exactly what I wouldn’t want him to do... along with all the good things he knows too, hehe.
The more he does the more we want to teach him! And he soaks it all up like a sponge. We’ve been working on body parts and Doug now knows where his heart, shoulders, and toes are! He also likes to mark his ‘patty cake’ with a D and put it in the oven for ‘me, mE, ME! He is such a smart little boy! We could seriously go on for hours and hours! Hahaha
"To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love."
~ Unknown
We are starting our first official fundraiser... We will be selling Yankee candles, and 40% of the profit goes to Doug’s Journey to Sight. Unfortunately as of now, there is no way to make sales over the internet, so please contact us if you would like to purchase some: Coleyni85@comcast.net. Don’t forget Christmas is coming up. This can be a great way to knock some people off that list and also help Doug at the same time!
We are welcome to any new ideas anyone has come up with. A few friends have started their own little ways to help us earn donations which we LOVE! If you know of or are thinking of anything to help us out, just let us know and we will look into it.
We are still looking for prize donations to go toward an auction we plan on having at a beef and beer. No dates are set as we want to get everything thing in place before we start selling tickets! Keep us in mind if you’re thinking about going!
We are also trying to find a calendar gadget that will allow us to add events, but are having trouble finding one. Until then you will just have to wait. As of right now we don’t have any fundraiser events coming up besides the Yankee candle sales.
This last week has gone by super fast. With the weather going back and forth Dougie hasn’t been feeling the best, but we do try and take advantage of the nicer weather and get out. We like long walk (well mom does) and LOVE the swings. We always stop at the park after a walk if there is enough time. Those of you who don’t know, Doug has an Occupational Therapist (an amazing occupational therapist might I add) that comes every other week through Early intervention. She came this week along with a lovely lady from Commission of the blind. These 2 work with both Doug and mom to make sure Doug keeps up with all his milestones. We’ve said it tons of times, but Doug is truly amazing and is currently right where he should be with his milestones.
This time we worked on putting things in a container and hearing the sound it makes… When we’re showed little things like this it really puts things into prospective. I (mom) personally am a very visual learner and to think of trying to learn everything without sight almost seems impossible, but Doug proves me wrong every day. He knows right where he shouldn’t be playing and exactly what I wouldn’t want him to do... along with all the good things he knows too, hehe.
The more he does the more we want to teach him! And he soaks it all up like a sponge. We’ve been working on body parts and Doug now knows where his heart, shoulders, and toes are! He also likes to mark his ‘patty cake’ with a D and put it in the oven for ‘me, mE, ME! He is such a smart little boy! We could seriously go on for hours and hours! Hahaha
~ Unknown
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